Quotes with number-one

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  • Emma Goldman In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • E. L. Doctorow In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.
    E. L. Doctorow
    American writer (1931 - 2015)
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  • Brad Carson In the U.S. I think there are really two reasons we should pursue energy policy. One is climate change, and the second is this notion that the oil market is cartel-ized by people, some of whom are friendly, some of whom are not, some of whom are in a more ambivalent position to us.
    Brad Carson
    American lawyer and politician (1967 - )
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  • Bill Hader In the U.S., it's like, you start with a great script, and then on set - not everybody, but definitely in the Apatow group - you go off, and you're improvising on camera. So while you're on camera, you're saying things that no one else has ever heard before during the actual take.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Franz Kafka In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.
    Franz Kafka
    Chech German-speaking writer (1883 - 1924)
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  • Charles Dickens In this world a great deal of the bitterness amongst us arises from an imperfect understanding of one another.
    Speech Birmingham’s Town Hall 30 december 1853
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Oscar Wilde In this world there are two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. The last is much the worst.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Swami Brahmananda In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.
    Swami Brahmananda
    Indian Hindu spiritual teacher
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  • Henry Louis Mencken In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Jean Paul In youth one has tears without grief, in old age grief without tears.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • George Robert Gissing In youth one marvels that man remains at so low a stage of civilisation, in later life one marvels that he has got so far.
    George Robert Gissing
    English writer (1857 - 1903)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bliss Carman Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.
    Bliss Carman
    Canadian poet (1861 - 1929)
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  • Ogden Nash Indoors or out, no one relaxes in March, that month of wind and taxes, the wind will presently disappear, the taxes last us all the year.
    Ogden Nash
    American poet (1902 - 1971)
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  • Aleister Crowley Indubitably, Magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Alexandre Dumas père Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.
    Alexandre Dumas père
    French writer (1802 - 1870)
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  • Milton Friedman Inflation is one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
    Milton Friedman
    American economist (1912 - 2006)
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  • Bill Gates Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Coco Chanel Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.
    Coco Chanel
    French couturier (1883 - 1971)
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